The Double Knot
I’m in a bag. I’m in a straitjacket in a bag. It’s a sky-blue laundry bag that Angie my ex-wife made me, and there are two, maybe three hundred people …
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Treasure Islands
Small pleasures and large truths in the South Pacific.
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I found myself in Austin, Texas
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Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
Skewering the Lonely Planet style
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Struck By Lightning
It’s random and electric, and we are forever drawn to its deadly charms
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The Eagle Has Landed
part 1: Two Operatives Seize the Road As he pulled out of the last rest stop before Waco, his rental car full of Al Gore’s overpriced $2 gas, Dick Cheney …
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To Darwin in Chile, 1835
You will learn to look on every city as Venice, stone lofted for a while as sun-draped statue before the tide grinds it to sand. Viewed through the telescopic glass …
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Post-Colonial Journeys
In the age of the global citizen, travel literature is in crisis
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Africa’s Latin Quarter
Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives
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Siberian BAM Guide
How to “minimise vodka damage” on the Trans-Siberian trail
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